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Dr. Grey Stafford, Director of Conservation at the World Wildlife Zoo in Phoenix, Arizona, emailed me that he is upset because "lawyers and extremists" use government to change the way he runs his zoo. He says that bad training and conservation methods are "imposed on us by some outside party whose agenda is not in the best interest of conservation, animals or zoos."

I'm not surprised. Liberal activists always think central planners make life better. My reporting has taught me: No They Can't!

"Texas now has more than a quarter-million exotic species, of which three-the scimitar-horned oryx, the addax, and the Dama gazelle-have been brought back from the brink of extinction," says Terry Anderson, of the Property and Environment Research Center.

The way to save rare animals is to let people profit off them. But that horrifies leftists.